WOW!!!

What a nice surprise to come home from a day on the road and find that this thread that I started last year and which dropped off the bottom after only 3 posts is alive and well...

Readin' music??? Nah, not too many blues player have any interest in learning that stuff...

Fir beginners it just a 1-4-5 progression...

Lotta of the blues I play comes outta north Mississippi in the "hill country" (lol)... No hills there just the banks of a flooded Mississippi Delta... Lotta different istruments played there... Get way back in the country at "picnics" and folks play fife and drum... The late Otha Turner was prolly ther best known fife player in Mississippi... I mean, I been to picnic where folkls be out in the front yard playing fife and drum and 90 year old women doin' some dirty dancin'... I mean, I won't get into no details...

Lotta the folks I know who play that north Mississippi stuff play one chord blues... Okay, it ain't exactly i chord but it ain't far from it... Ain't no 1-4-5 12 bar... It's more a cross between traditional delta blues, rockabilly and hard driving rock 'n roll... Kinda started with Fred McDowell and then down to R.L Burnside and Jessie Mae Hemphill and then to the rst of us playin' that style of blues... Like Richard Johnston, John Lowe, Ben Prestage, etc...

More later... We got a storm comin' in...

B~